Michelle Lanz
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                            Everything you ever wanted to know about air quality and fires but were afraid to ask.
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                            Randall Lobb, who by day is a high school English teacher, is the filmmaker behind "Turtle Power: The Definitive History of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles."
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                            Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti announced the launch of data.lacity.org, an open resource offering access to data collected by the City of L.A. at a conference hosted at City Hall called #techLA.
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                            Thanks to NASA's new Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, or IRIS, we can now see the violent explosions that occur on the sun.
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                            Herb Jeffries, an actor and singer most famous for his work with the Duke Ellington Orchestra and his role as a singing cowboy in "The Bronze Buckaroo," has died. He was 100.
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                            Bummed that you won't be able to watch the Dodgers on TV (even though you live within miles of the stadium)? Luckily the LA-area is full of sports bars and other establishments that will be airing the games.
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                            To help you prepare your ballots and refresh your memory of this year's great films, we've compiled all the interviews we've done with this year's Oscar contenders.
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                            Don't be that guy or gal who brings a boring old bag of chips. Why not take a little time and show up with something unexpected and delicious?
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                            The San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department say they have identified "charred human remains" amid the debris of the burned down cabin that was the scene of a fierce firefight earlier in the day.
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                            Join KPCC's Sanden Totten and G. Scott Hubbard, a veteran of the NASA Mars program, for a lively chat about all things Mars!
 
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